John Scott Duarte: “I represent a district in California's Central Valley that is a farm district. We have our water challenges there.”

I thank Chairman Westerman for yielding, and I rise in support of the Fix Our Forests Act. As someone who farms on the edge of the forest in California, I can tell you, bad policies coming out of Washington and Sacramento, exacerbated by…

I live in a rural part of California, 18th highest poverty level in the country, where they have taken the water off the farms and my families simply can't afford it.

this Cottonwood Decision has caused a state of paralysis in managing our Federal forests by requiring forest plans to go through new ESA consultations every time a new species is listed.

a legitimate player like yourself is going to look at alerts and, hey, don't buy these things from Peru, don't buy these things from Russia.